thug, mobster, criminal, hoodlum
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Hooligan Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
hooligan
n : a cruel and brutal fellow [syn: bully, tough, ruffian, roughneck, rowdy, yob, yobo, yobbo]
1. man who behaves in a loud, obnoxious and often aggressive or violent way; a lout; hoodlum; young street rough [19th C. British slang; perhaps from Hooligan - the name of a rowdy Irish family in a music-hall song of the 1890s)
Noun
1. a cruel and brutal fellow
(synonym) bully, tough, ruffian, roughneck, rowdy, yob, yobo, yobbo
(hypernym) attacker, aggressor, assailant, assaulter
(hyponym) bullyboy
Hooligan Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Hooliganism refers to behavior that is unruly, bullying, or vandalizing.
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